Barrel tapping and emptying device



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. S. A. REINHEIMER. BARREL TAPPING AND EMPTYING DEVICE.

No. 499,592. Patented June 13,1893.

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} BARREL TAPPING AND EMPTYING DEVIGE.

No. 499,592. Patented June 13. 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SARAH A. REINHEIMER, OF WINCHESTER, INDIANA.

BARREL TAPPING AND EMPTYING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,592, dated June 13, 1893. Application filed January 5, 1893. Serial No. 457,402. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SARAH A. REINHEIMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Winchester, in the county of Randolph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel Tapping and Filling Devices; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Thisinvention has relation to improvements in devices for tapping barrels, casks, and the like, containing liquids, molasses, &c. l

The prime object of the invention is to facilitate the operation of tapping, by dispensing with the handling of the cask to place it upon a rack or stand after the tap has been effected; the tap or connection for a faucet, spigot, or like device, being placed in position, after the cask, has been placed upon the rack or stand.

A further object of the invention is to make the tap at such a point in the cask or barrel that its entire contents may be drawn out;

thereby effecting a great saving by the use of the device, and avoiding injury to the body of the barrel by reason of cutting the bung only. To accomplish the latter object, I adapt the bung to receive a connection or faucet, and make the tap through such bung, as it is obvious that the entire contents of a barrel, can be drawn off through the bunghole, when placed on a rack or stand, as I have shown.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a bung which will be especially adapted to work in connection with my improved tap or faucet, whereby the operation of tapping may be rendered more effective and easy.

Other objects and advantages will appear from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which-- Figure 1, is a perspective View of a barrel arranged upon a stand with my improved tap applied to the bung thereof. Fig. 2, is asectional detail view of a barrel taken through the bun g-hole, with my improved bung therein, and also the tap in position. Fig. 3, is a perspective View of my improved device showing a part of a barrel stave in connection.

Fig. 4, is a perspective view of the device and a bung, showing the parts disconnected, and Fig. 5, is a perspective view of the cutter removed.

As a convenient form of construction I have shown the body of the tap in the accompanying drawings, as of a tubular elbow or bend, as this has been found in practice to be the most suitable shape to use, although it is obvious that instead of using a bond or elbow, a faucet or spigot of the usual form might be employed and provided with a cutter, as will be presently described, and it will be also obvious that instead of employing a separate faucet or spigot in connection with the elbow or bend, as will appear from the following specification, a key maybe arranged in connection with the bend, or in other words the bend orelbow may terminate in a faucet or spigot, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings: A, indicates a cask or barrel, and B, a rack or stand therefor. Neither of these devices form 'any part of my invention but are here shown for the purpose of better illustrating my improvements.

0, indicates my improved tapping device I which I have here shown as of an elbow or tubular bent portion, and is preferably composed of metal or other suitable material. This tap, as I shall denominate it, is provided at one end with external threads a, and at the base of the threads with an external annular shoulder b. The threads a, are designed to take into the threads of an internal threaded bushing B, which in some cases may constitute the bung of a barrel or cask, while in other cases it may form but a part of the bung.

0', indicates a cutter which is preferably composed of steel, and is also preferably of a dove-tailed form in cross section. This cutter has a cutting edge (1, at its outer end, and on its inner side at the base of the cutting edge, is a shoulder e, as better shown in Fig. 5, of the drawings. The tap is provided on its inner side or bore at its inner end with a recess f, which is of a shape corresponding with the body of the cutter, and thesaid cutter is placed in this recess, and secured by a screw g, or other suitable fastening device. When it is desired to remove this cutter should it become impaired. or injured, it is simply necessary to remove the screw, take out the cutter, and replace it by another. The bushing B, may have lugs on its outer side to prevent the same from turning when the tap is being made, and this bushing is furthermore provided with an aperture 71, for a purpose which will be presently described.

D, indicates a covering for the inner end of the bushing B. This covering is preferably composed of sheet metal and closes the aperture of the bushing, and is suitably secured upon the latter; a pin 1', being employed as one convenient means of securing the sheet metal cap or covering over the inner end of the bushing. The opposite or outer end of the connection (1, is internally screw threaded, as shown at 70, to receive a faucet or the like, having external threads at the receiving end. When a faucet or spigot which is not provided with threads, is employed, I use a reducer E, which is externally screw threaded and provided with a plain bore Z, within which a spigot or faucet may be placed.

In operation, when a bushing with the sheet metal covering D, has been placed in the bung of a barrel, and it is desirable to tap such barrel, it is simply necessaryto take the connection 0, with the cutter applied, and screw the same into the bushing, when the cutter will be brought to bear against the sheet metal exposed through the bushing, and by continuing to turn or screw the connection or tap, such sheet metal will be severed, in

the manner illustrated. As the cutter severs the sheet metal, the shoulder e, will force.

contact with the outer end of the bushing just before the cutter has entirely detached the sheet metal, so as to save the, piece of sheet metal from falling into the barrel, and allowing it to be removed with the bushing or bung.

Having described my invention, what, I claim is 1. The tap having its inner end externally screw-threaded and open throughoutitslength for the free admission of liquid, in combination with the cutter O, secured in the wall of said threaded end, substantially as specified.

2. A barrel tap,havingone end screw threaded, and a cutter projecting from the screw threaded end, in combination with a bushing, adapted to receive the threaded end of a tap, and be placed in the bung-hole of a barrel, and asheet metal covering for the bushing adapted toclose the bung-hole, and be cut by the tap when turned into the threaded bushing, substantially as specified.

3. A bushing adapted to be placed in the bung-hole of a barrel, in combination with a sheet metal covering, also placed in the bung hole, and a tap, having the cutter adapted to cut said sheet metal covering when placed in the bushing, substantially as specified.

4. A barrel bung, comprising an internally threaded bushing, and asheet metal cap placed over the inner end of said bushing, in combination with a faucet or tap carryingacutter, and also having its inner end threaded to engage the threads of the bushing so that when screwed into said bushing, the cutter will sever the sheet metal exposed through the bushing, substantially as specified.

SARAH A. REINHEIMER.

Witnesses:

LUTHER G. RUCKETT, LEWIS A. REINHEIMER. 

